Must be the formula for suck, because quite a few songs I hate sound like that. :)

+1 ... yep, gooey and mushy and set to a formula ... ecch

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Originally Posted by Naigewron

Here's Rob Parovinian's take on it. He uses Pachelbel's Cnon In D as his starting point, but it's basically the same chord progression. So yeah, the four chord formula seems to have originated at least as early as the 1790s :-)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
Granted, Rob takes some artistic liberties here; some of those songs don't actually use that chord progression, they just work well when sung on top of it